A vital and deeply humane documentary about memory, exile, and the costs of political conviction, Pin Pinโs Singapore-banned film reminds us that history does not disappear simply because it has been redacted.
A Sundance award-winning documentary that captures the power of civil resistance with gripping immediacy, as it chronicles the Kenmure Street protests in Glasgow, after two Sikh men were taken from their home into a police van that was prevented by the community from departing.
Wisemanโs observational mastery in this patient, humane, and richly textured work reveals a vision of community sustained through dialogue, care, and conflict, offering a quietly stirring reflection on what it means to nurture shared public spaces.
An editing masterclass that feels ahead of its time, this is Welles at his most playful and elusiveโutterly fascinating if you surrender to his tricks, obvious or otherwise, as he slyly provokes with a thesis on fakery, expertise, illusion and truth.
The fearless and admirable Laura Poitras weaves the traumatic personal history, artistic legacy, and near-fatal overdose of Nan Goldin into a formally inventive documentary that urgently reveals the power of transformative social justice.
Realism without filters, Chernovโs follow-up to the Oscar-winning โ20 Days in Mariupolโ is a devastating war vรฉritรฉ that strips conflict of rhetoric, leaving only attrition, absurdity, and the unbearable weight of patriotic labour carried by ordinary Ukrainian men.
Serraโs unflinching, observational documentary plants its camera with sniper-like focus on the bloody ritual of bullfighting, as static long takes and dynamic close-ups capture a lonely matador risking his life, afternoon after afternoon, to end another.
Despite its lack of style and the textbook-esque approach to conventional documentary filmmaking, this is quite rightly one of the finest of its kindโa galvanising and sensitive work on the LGBTQ legacy of Harvey Milk and his tragic assassination.ย
Powerful, insightful, frightening and surprisingly amusing, this documentary gives us unprecedented access into the inner workings of the Taliban as they returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.
A free-form experiment that sees the filmmaker putting together a feature out of decades of behind-the-scenes footage from around the worldโits fragmented moments of joy, anger, trauma and empathy reveal a common humanity even as they refuse to mark time and its deconstruction.
Eternality Tan 